Peter Schneider (conductor)
Peter Schneider (born 26 March 1939, in Vienna) is an Austrian conductor and opera administrator.
Schneider served as kapellmeister of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf-Duisburg from 1961 to 1968; general music director of the Bremer Philharmoniker from 1978 to 1985; opera director and general music director of Nationaltheater Mannheim from 1985 to 1987; and general music director of the Bayerische Staatsoper orchestra, München from 1993 to 1998.
Schneider sang as a member of the Vienna Boys Choir as a youth, and was named honorary conductor of the Vienna State Opera in 2004.
Decorations and awards
- Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1997)
- Bavarian Order of Merit
- Honorary member of the Vienna State Opera
- Winners of the Foundation Semperoper Dresden (2008)
- Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (2009)
- 1939 births
- Living people
- Musicians from Vienna
- Male conductors (music)
- Opera managers
- Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
- Recipients of the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 21st-century Austrian conductors (music)
- 21st-century male musicians
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- European conductor (music) stubs